CD-RW is a recordable and rewritable cd drive (cd burner).
My CD drive is again working. I took it apart, and blew it out since I don't have a CD drive cleaner (but I'll be getting one). I put it back in and it works! The other thing I did was remove an old Adaptec Easy CD Creator program. I don't like it when I do two things at once and get something to work, since I don't know what worked. On the CD drive I suspect cleaning it out might have solved the problem. But I did not see anything on the optical lens.
Also I had previously removed the CD drive via the "Device Mangler" and removed and reinstalled the IDE connection on the CD drive. In fact when I removed the CD drive I used the IDE connection it had for the CD-RW and the CD-RW worked so it wasn't the IDE connection.
On a previous post I seen a suggestion to clean the CD drive. I don't recall who suggested it. It's nice to have a forum like this and the ability to go back in history to see if anyone else had this problem and solved it.